[tex-live] shell_escape extension patch

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Wed Jun 14 15:09:38 CEST 2006


Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Akira Kakuto wrote:
> 
> 
>>...
>>
>>BTW, on windows' cmd.exe,
>>perl -e "print sqrt(4)"
>>is ok, but
>>perl -e 'print sqrt(4)'
>>is ng.
>>Therefore
>>\input "|perl -e 'print sqrt(4)'"
>>fails, while
>>\input "|perl --version"
>>works.

This could be fixed by allowing either one of these:

   "...\"...\"..." or '..."..."...'

as a valid 'quoted file'. WDYT?

Taco



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